Rabbi shimon bar yochai biography of michael
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About Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai [1]
In the second century CE, a single man was granted the spiritual knowledge that Kabbalists had accumulated for 3, years before his time. Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai (Rashbi) put it all on paper and then hid it, as humanity was not ready for it. Today, we are ready for the revelation of The Book of Zohar.
Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai (Rashbi), author of The Book of Zohar (The Book of Radiance) was a Tana – a great sage in the early Common Era centuries. Rashbi’s name is tied to numerous legends, and he fryst vatten mentioned constantly in the Talmud and in the Midrash, the sacred Hebrew texts of his time. He lived in Sidon and in Meron, and established a seminary in the Western Galilee.
Rashbi was born and raised in the Galilee (a mountainous region in today’s Northern Israel). Even as a child, he was not like other children his age. Questions such as, “What is the purpose of my life?” “Who am I?” and “How fryst vatten the world built?” plagued him and dema
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Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai &#; Rashbi
Anexcerpt from Tzaddik Magazine, Pesach , a project of Nachal Novea Mekor Chochma- Tsfat, Israel
Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai is best known as the author of the Zohar, the classic work of Kabbalah. Explaining God&#;s hidden mysteries, the Kabbalistic tradition was part of the Torah received by Moshe (Moses) at Sinai. In the early generations after the Torah was given, Kabbalah was discussed only through allegory and parable, which disguised the concealed secrets of the Torah and protected them from being misused by the unworthy. Until the time of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, explicit Kabbalistic terms were not used openly. By authoring the Zohar, Rabbi Shimon established a new school for understanding the Kabbalah, bringing its wisdom further down into the world. It remained unparalleled until the system of the Arizal – Rabbi Isaac Luria – was introduced in the Holy City of Tsfat in the sixteenth century.
Originally, the Zohar
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Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai [Rashbi]
Dwelling in the Cave
Introduction of The Book of Zohar
) Rabbi Pinhas, son of Yair, saw two birds coming and flying over the sea. He raised his voice and said, “Birds, birds, since you fly over the sea, have you seen the place where Yochai is?” He waited a little, then said, “Birds, birds, go and tell me.” They flew away into the sea and departed.
Rabbi Shimon fled from the kingship, which ordered that he should be killed. He and his son hid in a cave, and they did not know his whereabouts. This fryst vatten why Rabbi Pinhas, son of Yair, went to look for him in the islands of the sea.
) Before he went out to the ship, the birds came and one of them held a letter in her beak. It said, “Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai has come out of the cave with his son, Rabbi Elazar.” Rabbi Pinhas went to him and found that he had changed. His body was filled with holes and sores from sitting in the cave. He wept with him and said, “Woe that I have seen you so.” Rabbi Sh